Argentina is not the only country in which the bulk of the population tends to believe themselves victim of the malevolence of a band of parasitic subjects that, after seizing many public and private institutions, began to take advantage of them for their own benefit without worrying at all for the destiny of others. Something very similar is happening in the United States, France, Germany, the United Kingdom and other parts of Europe in which an amorphous rebellion against the status quo that is led by disruptive characters such as Javier Milei and Donald Trump, men convinced that their respective countries took a wrong twist at a certain moment of the past and that they have to do as much as necessary to recover “the greatness” thus lost.
While the differences between the rich but disturbed world superpower and Argentina are abysmal, and the libertarian ideas of President Milei are far from coinciding with the protectionist instincts of his American counterpart, the two owe their prominence to the failure of the governments that preceded them and the apparent exhaustion of the political culture that prevailed until recently in the countries of most European roots. However, while in Argentina, an autarkic strategy like Trump would be suicidal, in the United States a mileista would only serve to aggravate a situation that, for many who support the “orange man”, is already unbearable.
It goes without saying that, for “the elites” that are under attack, these are two manifestations of “populism” that qualify as “ultra -right” despite the fact that many changes proposed by Trump and their fans in other latitudes are related to those who, just a generation behind, claimed the left.
What is what is happening? In the end, to the awareness that, a long time ago, economic development ceased to favor the common man, as had happened in the decades that followed World War II and well paid jobs and offices for those who lacked special talents. Not only in the United States but also in Europe, Japan and Australia, the majority’s income has barely improved in the last fifty years although the gross product has increased a lot, and everything suggests that, thanks to the frantic progress of technology, the possibility of doing so in the predictable future is remote. Even when Trump manages to repatriate the industrial jobs that the entrepreneurs of his country exported to Mexico, China and other reduced wage countries, it would be expected that automation was responsible for a growing proportion of the tasks it managed to rescue.
The discomfort that so many feel has been aggravated by what we could call the aburgues of leftist progressivism that today is dominated by academics, jurists, politics professionals, people from the entertainment and public employees who occupy hierarchical positions in state bureaucracies. Unlike their precursors, who today are assumed socialists and even Marxists do not even pretend to believe in the historical mission of the proletariat. On the contrary, in the most prosperous countries, current progress tends to despise their members; In his opinion, they are not up to the role that the Biempensantes de Ortora had entrusted to them because they have turned out to be miserable reactionaries that easily succumb to the temptations provided by nationalism, racism and sexism.
And, as if the defects attributed to them were not enough to motivate their outrage, they believe that they are too stupid to adapt to the times that are running and therefore are personally responsible for deterioration of their quality of life. As the US former American president Joe Biden and others who lost their jobs, manual workers should “learn to schedule.”
Disappointed by the working class that had been betrayed by supporting right -wing nationalists such as Marine Le Pen and its equivalents, international progress chose to seek their redemption supporting with fervor the alleged victims of congenital evil of their compatriots, starting with ethnic minorities, especially the “color”, such as those made up of blacks in the United States and Muslim immigrants in Europe. He also sympathized with militant transsexuals, which, among other things, forced them to deny that there are significant differences between the two genera in which members of almost all species are divided, including ours.
As he could foresee, what began as an attempt to eliminate some residual prejudices soon metamorphiced in a furious offensive against the “white man” that, in the opinion of the most fanatized -many of them whites -had made the entire world a hell. For the “Woke”, it is no longer a matter of trying to reform the existing order in their country but to fight a propaganda war against Western civilization, allying with the Muslim extremists who, although they share the desire to destroy it, disagree around what they would put in their place. Perhaps the only certain thing is that, if the Islamists were successful, they would not hesitate to exterminate their leftist friends, as their co -religionists in Iran heal after the fall of Sha Reza Pahlevi.
It may only be really convinced that Western civilization is dying, but there is no doubt that the cultural pessimism that manifests is contributing to demoralize – both senses of the word – to the most opulent, free, egalitarian and, in theory, militarily powerful societies that the world has seen. A striking symptom of discomfort is the almost universal collapse of the birth rate. Until very recently, it was usual to assume that only the “rightists” worried about the issue, since in elitist circles the consensus was that it would be necessary to “save the planet” from the environmental disasters caused by man, but such attitudes are changing.
Be that as it may, it is difficult to deny that the refusal of so many to have children tells us that something is very bad in modern societies. For some, it is a consequence of the loss of religious faith and the idea that life makes sense that it used to accompany it; Lately, many atheists and agnostics have started quoting Blaise Pascal, the French philosopher and mathematician who, in the seventeenth century, said that “there is a God in the shape of God in the heart of each man.”
As it could not be otherwise, the enemies of the West are determined to take full advantage of the mood downturn of societies that, thirty years ago, believed to have plenty of reasons to believe were superior as a whole to all their rivals. Among other things, the neo-Zarist imperialism of Vladimir Putin and the renewed jihadism of Islamists were enabled by the loss of confidence in their own destiny that afflicts the leading classes of the United States and Europe. The Chinese life president Xi Jinping and members of his surroundings have also been emboldened.
While it would seem that on both sides of the Atlantic, and also in Japan and Australia, governments have realized that the principal weakness is in itself provocative and that therefore they should prepare for war with the hope that they are never constrained to fight one, they are not easy for them to do so. In the United States, Trump is still sowing confusion, and although European leaders, accustomed as they have been dependent on US protection, they understand that they will have to make a priority rearmament, they fear that if they reduce social expenses, political consequences would be unmanageable. Be that as it may, some, such as French president Emmanuel Macron and British prime minister Keir Starmer, seem to have realized that it is absurd that Europeans feel intimidated by threats from a relatively poor country like Russia.
Another consequence of the western mood crisis has been the resurgence of Islamic militancy that, when few questioned the supremacy of the dynamic order that originated in the Enlightenment, only interested those fascinated by exotic phenomena. Although the challenge he raises has grown exponentially in recent decades, in Europe those willing to take it still are scarce. For fear of unleashing large -scale disturbances, the governments of the western part of the continent would prefer to keep the doors to immigrants, usually undocumented, of the Muslim countries of the Middle East and North Africa, but public pressures are forcing them to modify their attitude and affirm themselves to be resolved to expel more dangerous jihadist fans.
In the United States, where the situation is less serious, Trump’s government has assumed a much more forceful attitude when ordering the police and immigration authorities to put an end to the “antisionist” agitation – that is, anti -Semitic – of jihadists and their supporters of the left that for more than a year has converted some famous universities in dangerous places for Jewish students.
